| 单词 | bluebeard closet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBluebeard closet C1. attributive, designating a place in which a person keeps something hidden, esp. something shocking or controversial, as Bluebeard closet, Bluebeard room, etc.Frequently in figurative contexts. ΚΠ 1821 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater in London Mag. Sept. 303/1 That room was to her the Blue-beard room of the house. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. v. i. 410 The Bluebeard Chamber of her mind, into which no eye but her own must ever look. 1889 R. L. Stevenson Let. Dec. (1899) 207 I hope from my outcries about printing you do not think I want you to keep my news or letters in a Bluebeard closet. 1905 E. F. Heddle Secret of Turret xi. 123 He has his skeleton! Do you know that, Joy? He has his Blue-Beard room! 1994 T. M. Disch in E. Datlow & T. Windling Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 102 The ‘Bluebeard’ room in which he had stored the personal possessions of his earlier victims. < as lemmas |
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